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What you imagine has nothing to do with fact. Yes, 'wild' polecats do tend to use unoccupied/deserted burrows (a burrow can be defined as either a hole or a tunnel) of other animals, if none are avaliable they will dig their own. Again, stashing prey is relative to the carnivorve and it's dietary requirements. As polecats, like ferrets, have a high metabolism, the larder is soon depleted. I'm not sure what predators you believe will take on, or even fit into the burrow of a wild polecat defending a stashed kill. Chicks in a bird nest etc attract the unwanted attention of predators, but pol
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Well what polecats are you talking about then (obviously not polecat coloured ferrets!), and how do they differ in relation to the previous points?
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WTF are you on about?
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Right oh then.. They get very little nutritional value from fur & feather but they eat it. Every time I've ever put a whole prey item in with my ferrets they've eaten the fecking lot, guts, beaks, fur, feather, the fecking lot. Hold on, one minute you are arguing guts contain all the trace elements a ferret needs, if not chuck in a handful of peas, now you're arguing your ferrets eat whole prey? My ferrets and my hybrids eat whole prey too. What is your point? My point is that sometimes I feed whole ungutted rabbits/birds/small mammals, sometimes I feed gutted rabbits & s
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Right oh then.. They get very little nutritional value from fur & feather but they eat it. Every time I've ever put a whole prey item in with my ferrets they've eaten the fecking lot, guts, beaks, fur, feather, the fecking lot. Hold on, one minute you are arguing guts contain all the trace elements a ferret needs, if not chuck in a handful of peas, now you're arguing your ferrets eat whole prey? My ferrets and my hybrids eat whole prey too. What is your point? My point is that sometimes I feed whole ungutted rabbits/birds/small mammals, sometimes I feed gutted rabbits & s
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Right oh then.. They get very little nutritional value from fur & feather but they eat it. Every time I've ever put a whole prey item in with my ferrets they've eaten the fecking lot, guts, beaks, fur, feather, the fecking lot. Hold on, one minute you are arguing guts contain all the trace elements a ferret needs, if not chuck in a handful of peas, now you're arguing your ferrets eat whole prey? My ferrets and my hybrids eat whole prey too. What is your point? there crosses not hybrids ? Call it a cross or a hybrid, it's the same thing.
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Well I'll obligate you by telling you that if you put a whole rabbit in with ferrets that are used to eating whole carcass, they will eat the guts. I have no idea how long you have owned ferrets my little button flower, but I'm guessing not that long and you have a great many things to learn. John Thanks petal, I'll keep that in mind.
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The survival situation for various carnivores is very different. Hyenas/lions/wolves etc bring down much larger prey than domesticated ferrets, and unlike ferrets, they hunt for survival. The smell of fermenting plant matter in the preys stomach attracts other predators to a kill (with lions and hyenas the young will be nearby, and are under threat from other predator species), so the stomach/intestines are either quickly eaten to help avoid competition over the kill, or the stomach/intestines will be buried to help eliminate the smell carrying. Lions and Hyenas do not reguritate for their you
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Whys that mate? Wondering because ive chucked in the odd chicken thats left over from dinner Cooked bones have a higher tendency to shatter/splinter than raw bones. The problem lies when sharp bone shards damage/perforate the intestines during digestion.
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Right oh then.. They get very little nutritional value from fur & feather but they eat it. Every time I've ever put a whole prey item in with my ferrets they've eaten the fecking lot, guts, beaks, fur, feather, the fecking lot. Hold on, one minute you are arguing guts contain all the trace elements a ferret needs, if not chuck in a handful of peas, now you're arguing your ferrets eat whole prey? My ferrets and my hybrids eat whole prey too. What is your point?
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The survival situation for various carnivores is very different. Hyenas/lions/wolves etc bring down much larger prey than domesticated ferrets, and unlike ferrets, they hunt for survival. The smell of fermenting plant matter in the preys stomach attracts other predators to a kill (with lions and hyenas the young will be nearby, and are under threat from other predator species), so the stomach/intestines are either quickly eaten to help avoid competition over the kill, or the stomach/intestines will be buried to help eliminate the smell carrying. Lions and Hyenas do not reguritate for their you
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I'm sure that you'll know that as an obligate carnivore a ferret can get all the trace vitamins it needs from the undigested food in the gut of whole prey items. If you don't feed the odd, ungutted rabbit every now and again, it's hardly difficult to chuck a handful of peas or something in with some minced meat now and again. Obligate carnivores are incapable of digesting/breaking down cellulose, so peas etc are of no benefit whatsoever. Most carnivores, unless starving will leave the stomach/guts contents, as they next to no nutritional value. I know its a small point, but mo
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Alrite mate i'm in the category of not avin a Clue, but i feed my Healthy , Workin Ferrets , rabbit, squirrel, pidgeon,rook etc ,(always at night in warmer months ) & abit of dry biscuit for achange, but not instead of, ps where do Polecats get their supplements in the Wild ? Hi, I'm not sure whether it's appropriate to compare the diet of a wild species to that of a domesticated species. A wild Polecat will supplement its diet by killing what it needs. Domesticated ferrets only have the choice to eat what the're given. If I were to give advice to a novice, it would be to compl
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I'm sure that you'll know that as an obligate carnivore a ferret can get all the trace vitamins it needs from the undigested food in the gut of whole prey items. If you don't feed the odd, ungutted rabbit every now and again, it's hardly difficult to chuck a handful of peas or something in with some minced meat now and again. Obligate carnivores are incapable of digesting/breaking down cellulose, so peas etc are of no benefit whatsoever. Most carnivores, unless starving will leave the stomach/guts contents, as they next to no nutritional value.
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Alrite mate i'm in the category of not avin a Clue, but i feed my Healthy , Workin Ferrets , rabbit, squirrel, pidgeon,rook etc ,(always at night in warmer months ) & abit of dry biscuit for achange, but not instead of, ps where do Polecats get their supplements in the Wild ? Hi, I'm not sure whether it's appropriate to compare the diet of a wild species to that of a domesticated species. A wild Polecat will supplement its diet by killing what it needs. Domesticated ferrets only have the choice to eat what the're given.
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2-3 times a month is not going to harm them, smoking, drinking alcohol, sugary drinks, eating takeaway food there all bad for the human body but I bet you have them. So shut up you sad c**t Yeh, but in all fairness, animals rely on their owners, just like children rely on their parents, and no right minded adult will give their child cigs & drink, crap food etc. Anyway, point is, bread and milk isn't suitable to feed ferrets, regardless of frequency. A mix of meat and complete ferret food is great, but not bread and milk. The ferrets get no goodness from it, and the excess starch an
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Well, had some interesting reactions from the VMD. They are looking into the matter and tbh, the whole situation is very bizarre at present. I really don't know what is going on, and nor do those in charge either! It will certainy be intersting to hear what the FERT vet advisors have been told, if anything, and what their info is compared to what others have or haven't been told. It's all very, very odd!
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so are you suggesting a natural diet is not satisfying the appropriate dietary requirements of ferrets? No. The statement you highlighted means that large quantities of muscle tissue would need to be consumed in order for a ferret to receive enough dietary Taurine. Are you a vet by any chance? No offence but your posts seem very similar to what vets spout when they're trying to get you to buy some of their expensive products that are totally unnecessary if an animal is eating what it should be eating naturally. Why exactly do you give your ferrets supplements if you're giving them
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so are you suggesting a natural diet is not satisfying the appropriate dietary requirements of ferrets? No. The statement you highlighted means that large quantities of muscle tissue would need to be consumed in order for a ferret to receive enough dietary Taurine. Are you a vet by any chance? No offence but your posts seem very similar to what vets spout when they're trying to get you to buy some of their expensive products that are totally unnecessary if an animal is eating what it should be eating naturally. Why exactly do you give your ferrets supplements if you're giving them
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ferret fell asleep during ferretin
ferret100 replied to borderhunter15's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
It could just have been tired out, even ferrets can have an off day. Is your ferret ok now? All normal in eating, drinking, activity, toileting etc? Coat ok? Ears clean, teeth ok? No odd lumps of bumps anywhere? Feet and nails ok? Any fighting with its companions, if it has any? -
For once, dare I say it, we might actually agree!
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Usually, mine come to call, but they they are like rats following the Pied Piper when the dogs about! Quite comical really!
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so are you suggesting a natural diet is not satisfying the appropriate dietary requirements of ferrets? No. The statement you highlighted means that large quantities of muscle tissue would need to be consumed in order for a ferret to receive enough dietary Taurine. Are you a vet by any chance? No offence but your posts seem very similar to what vets spout when they're trying to get you to buy some of their expensive products that are totally unnecessary if an animal is eating what it should be eating naturally. Why exactly do you give your ferrets supplements if you're giving them
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so are you suggesting a natural diet is not satisfying the appropriate dietary requirements of ferrets? No. The statement you highlighted means that large quantities of muscle tissue would need to be consumed in order for a ferret to receive enough dietary Taurine. Are you a vet by any chance? No offence but your posts seem very similar to what vets spout when they're trying to get you to buy some of their expensive products that are totally unnecessary if an animal is eating what it should be eating naturally. Why exactly do you give your ferrets supplements if you're giving them
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so are you suggesting a natural diet is not satisfying the appropriate dietary requirements of ferrets? No. The statement you highlighted means that large quantities of muscle tissue would need to be consumed in order for a ferret to receive enough dietary Taurine.